Project CARS was a crowdfunded racing simulator video game launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in May 2015 In addition to these consoles this video game was planned for Nintedo's Wii U system, but the Wii U version was afterwards cancelled. This was because the developers stated that they could not release the game in the right framerate for the Wii U system, and also additionally stated that they believed that the Wii U's market share and sales were not good enough, so they believed it wasn't worth the time.
Development[]
The game was as mentioned above developed for all the main consoles of the major companies, which are PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows and the Wii U system. But whilst the game was successfully released for the other consoles, it never saw the light of day on the Wii U system. The reasons for the cancellation was because the developers were unable to develop the game at 30fps with a resolution of 720p, and anyway the Wii U system's sales were too poor to bother creating the game for it.
Why It was Cancelled[]
- Developers could not able to running smooth 30 frames per second (fps) because of drops around 23 fps.
- The Wii U's market share and sales that not enough to port of this game.
- When the Wii U port was cancelled, Ian Bell (founder of Slighty Mad Studios) said that Wii U was a lackluster hardware powerful and plans to wishing by another console, Nintendo Switch.
- When the Nintendo Switch was officialy revealed. Unfortunaly, Ian Bell said that no plans for port by Nintendo Switch nor Project CARS 2 on the Nintendo Switch version.
Results[]
- The game was cancelled due to the failure of the Wii U.